In a way, we have rewritten the history of art,” explained Barbara Jatta, director of the Vatican Museums, during a ...

Apollodotus II is known for issuing bilingual coins with Greek and Kharosthi (script) inscriptions called drachmas, which had ...

The Vatican Museums have unveiled its newly restored Hall of Constantine, one of its Raphael Rooms, including two newly ...

One of only three surviving Byzantine crowns, it depicts a man and two sisters who jointly ruled the empire in the 11th ...

The early Byzantine fortress Tuida was integral to the defense system, and this was the fourth coin of this kind retrieved ...

The Vatican Museums has unveiled the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms. These are the spectacularly ...

The story of Constantinople is a fascinating one that dates back millennia to when this mega-city was a small Greek town ...

Italy’s Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli meets Lina Mendoni in Athens and pledges cooperation for the return of the ...

A man unearthed a priceless hoard of 20,000 Roman coins as he dug a new fishpond in his back garden. ... "The coins identified so far can be attributed to Constantine the Great. "The mint marks - a ...

The pendant imitates a Roman coin called a solidus, a type of gold coin introduced by the emperor Constantine in the fourth century A.D. It was discovered in January 2023 near the town of ...

A Darlington man has found a 1700-year-old coin from the reign of Constantine the Great. Mark McMullan, an experienced metal detectorist, has described the "buzz" of the discovery and how it ...